by Robert Dana

Mirage

by Donald Platt

Ooh My Soul

Perry County Novena

by Kyle Thompson

Player Piano

by Kevin Young

Suddenly & Hearing Roy Orbison on the Tape Loop at Starbuck’s

by J. T. Barbarese

That Cried to the Whole City “Sleep No More”

by Gina Franco

That’s a Take

by George Bilgere

The Singers I Prefer

by Christian Barter

Watcher over the Dead

by Richard Tillinghast

Art

Living the Blues: The Music Makers

by Various Artists

Reviews

Contrasting Memories of Escape and Survival (on Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt; Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm by David Hamilton; Flying Sparks: Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas by Odette Larson; and A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel)

by Sanford Pinsker

Interlude (on Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems, 1951-2001 by Madeline DeFrees; Waterborne by Linda Gregerson; Book of My Nights by Li-Young Lee; The Holy Worm of Praise by Philip Schultz; and Bellocq’s Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey)

Provision and Perfection (on Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New And Selected Poems, 1970-2000 by Stanley Plumly)

by David Baker

Supporting Roles (on Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling by Maura Stanton; The Price You Pay by Ellen Winter; Leaving the Neighborhood and Other Stories by Lucy Ferriss; & The Practical Heart: Four Novellas by Allan Gurganus)